Support for bicycles.



no. 679,765. Patented Aug. s', Ism.

G. w. MANSUN. SUPPORT FDR B|GYCLES. (Application filed Nav. 17, 1900.) (No Model.)

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*I IIIIIII-lill NITED STATES GEORGE W. MANSON, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

SUPPORT FOR BICYCLES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 679,765, dated August 6, 1901.

Application liled November 17, 1900. Serial No. 36,847. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concer-n:

Be it known that I, GEORGE W. MANsoN, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the borough of Manhattan, in the city and Fig. 2.

State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Rest or Support for Bicycles, of which the following is a specification.

The Subj ect of my invention is a rest or support adapted to be pivoted on the projecting ends of the fixed axle or spindle of the drivewheel of a bicycle and when turned down to support the wheel off the ground and sustain the entire cycle in upright position and when turned `up to serve as an upper mud-guard and skirt-protector While the wheel is running.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of the wheel-rest, showing it in full lines turned up, as when the wheel is Tunning,- and in dotted lines turned down in position to support the Wheel oft the ground. Fig. 2 is a rear elevation, partly in section, showing the rest turned down anda portion of the Wheel on which it is mounted.

8 represents part o f the rear or drive wheel of a bicycle; 76, the projecting ends of the fixed spindle or shaft thereof; 74., the customary washers; 75, nuts by which the hub of the wheel is retained on 'its bearings, and 1 1 portions of the bicycle-frame.

My improved rest is constructedwith two pairs of diverging tubular arms 83, fixed at their inner ends to collars 84 and at their outer divergent ends to horizontal at steel bars 85 85, formed with downturned ends and rigidly con nected together, so as to constitute a base-shoe for the rest. The shoe-bars 85 have vertically-projecting studs or tenons 86, which are permanently fixed in the outer ends of the respective tubular arms 83, a's shown in Fig. 2. Similar studs on the collars 84 are employed to lin thereto the inner ends of the tubular arms 83, as shownin dotted lines in The shoe-bars 85 are connected and fixed at the proper distance asunder by tubular tie-rods 87, to the ends of which the shoebars are xed by screws 88.

To apply the rest to a bicycle, the collars 84 are slipped over the projecting ends 7 6 of the xed shaft and confined thereon by nuts 89, so as to be free to turn on the said shaft.

lVhen the bicycle is to be used, the rest is turned up to the position shown in full lines in Fig. 1, over the top of the wheel, the position of which is indicated in dotted lines in the same figure, and the rest is retained in this elevated position by a hook 90, which is mounted on a cross-bar 10 of the seat-frame or any suitable part of the fixed frame. Vhile in this position the rest constitutes an effective upper mud-guard or skirtprotector to prevent contact of the clothing of the rider with the wheel while the wheel is running.

In order to support the bicycle in upright position while at rest, the rest or support is turned down to the position shown in Fig. 2 and yin dotted lines in Fig. l, raising the wheel 8 off the ground and providing an eiective vsupporting-base therefor.

. Having thus described my invention, the following is what I claim as new therein and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

1. A supporting-rest for bicycles comprising tWo pairs of diverging tubular arms, a collar fixed to the inner ends of the respective pairs of arms, horizontal flat shoe-bars formed with downturned ends secured to the outer ends of the diverging arms, and tie-rods connecting the shoe-bars.

2. A supporting-rest for bicycles comprising two pairs of diverging tubular arms, a

vcollar fixed to the inner ends of the respective pairs of arms, horizontal dat shoe-bars formed with downturned ends secured to the outer ends of the diverging arms, and tie-rods connecting the shoe-bars, in combination with a supporting-hook secured to a bicycle-frame adapted to engage and hold the support in elevated position.

GEORGE W. MANS'ON.

Witnesses:

OcTAvoUs KNIGHT, WM. P. HAMMOND. 

